El mar, 04-01-2005 a las 19:50 -0500, Glenn Maynard escribió:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:12:42AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > We can provide the logo under a free copyright license but fairly strict
> > trademark license. A restrictive copyright license prevents legitimate
> > modifications as well, which isn't what we want.
>
> It's not clear whether a work which is affected by a "strict" trademark
> license is DFSG-free. I don't think much headway has ever been made
> on figuring out how trademarks and the DFSG interact, probably because
> there hasn't been much need (the logos clearly havn't been sufficient).
> I suspect the Mozilla issue may make that happen, though.
But trademarks are strict and not free by default. If I can use a
trademark to name my own products when they don't belong to me, it is no
longer a trademark.
If formulae for Coca-Cola were GPL, I could make my own coke and also
distribute it, but I don't think I could use the name Coca-Cola in the
market and the glass bottle.
And that is something that will happen with every trademark, as
trademark law is quite different from copyright one.
Greetings,
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Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
jsogo@debian.org